A Genealogy Journey Begins...

Welcome, family!

I am beginning a genealogy blog to highlight some recent (and older) discoveries I have made about our ancestry, which I call Pannell/Peter Genealogy. It seems I have had more free time lately than usual....

This will be a forum to share and preserve these discoveries, and also to consolidate information about a specific ancestor/relative so it all makes more sense. One day I may put it into a family album like John Holt did for the Holt/Peter family.

A few examples of things I have found recently, which I will deal with shortly in more detail:

For William Dodd Pannell (1823 or 1824–1872) [2nd great grandfather; NextGen: 3rd great grandfather], a well-known preacher, I have an entry from A History of Kentucky Baptists from 1769 to 1885.

In his capacity as religious leader, the same individual presided over the wedding of a cousin Sarah Ann Dodd (Wilkins) (1830–?) [1st cousin 4x removed; NextGen: 1st cousin 5x removed] to Monroe Lee Sheldon on 4 March 1856. The cool thing is that the marriage license contains his signature!
 
I have a new obituary for his wife, Saludia or Saluda A. Walker (1832–1911) [2nd great grandmother; NextGen: 3rd great grandmother] from the Greenville KY Record.

We are cousins with William Wyatt Bibb (1781–1820) [2nd cousin 5x removed; NextGen: 2nd cousin 6x removed], who was the first governor of the state of Alabama, and also had previously served as a senator of Georgia. [Factoid of note: there are only three individuals who have served as governor of one state and senator of another. The third one is Sen. Mitt Romney (MA/UT). The second is also quite famous. Can you guess him?]

I have an obituary for Thomas Benjamin Pannell (great grandfather; NextGen: 2nd great grandfather) from the Owensboro, KY, Messenger-Inquirer (Jan 7, 1934).
 
For the same individual, I have a photographic ID from 1920 (when he was sixty) showing that he served as a Federal Prohibition Inspector. Who knew! Let's drink to that!

More to follow... (feel free to view my public tree, CharlesAndrewPannell, at Ancestry.com).


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